An estimated 1,000-plus Entergy customers and nine traffic signals were without power for about an hour Tuesday afternoon, prompting local law enforcement to take to the intersections to control traffic.

Russellville Police Department Public Information Officer Drew Latch said each stoplight on Arkansas Avenue between Parkway Drive and Highway 7T, and several stoplights west of the intersection of Arkansas Avenue and Main Street were out. Although it took some time for the police to direct traffic through the intersections, no wrecks were reported during the outage.

“There were no wrecks, just a lot of directing traffic,” Latch said.”The Russellville Police Department wants to send a special thanks to all their patrol officers and officers with the Arkansas Tech Department of Public Safety, who were able to conduct traffic control on all the major intersections, and would also like to send a special “thank you” to the street department for helping to bring out generators for each stop light.”

The power went down shortly before 12:30 p.m. and was restored about an hour later.

Public Works Director Michael Oakes said the city has enough generators to power each of the city’s traffic signals.

Kenneth Duvall, traffic superintendent for the city of Russellville, said eight transformers were taken out to the different stoplights, but power was restored while traffic officials worked to install the eighth.

“Every one of our traffic controllers has a different box we can hook our generators into,” he said. “It’s really fast.”